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Artist as leader
As the Clore Leadership Programme's first dedicated 'Artist Fellow', Joshua Sofaer set about exploring what 'Artist as Leader' might mean. Here we share his AHRC-funded research including Sofaer's overview of what it revealed. Already online, interviews with: Cornelia Parker, Field Theory, First Draft, Richard Layzell and Richard Hicks, Kate Love. interviews with Masato Nakamura, and David Wilson will follow soon. Includes sound files hosted on Youtube and Sofaer's written comments and observations alongside.
Artist as leader: Or should that be ‘redael’?
As the Clore Leadership Programme's first dedicated 'Artist Fellow', Joshua Sofaer set about exploring what 'Artist as Leader' might mean. Here he shares an overview of what his research revealed. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk November 2012
Masato Nakamura
6 December 2011. 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo. Edited transcript of recorded interview.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, Masato Nakamura discusses his commitment to transforming the art education system in Japan, and the inauguration of a new model of art centre "founded on the basis of artist leadership". Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk April 2013
Richard Layzell and Richard Hicks
28 December 2011. Soho, London. Recording Time: 50 minutes.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell's 7 year tenure as 'Visionaire' at AIT software where he created bespoke events that addressed the problems and needs of the developing company. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk March 2013
First Draft
16 November 2011. First Draft Gallery, Sydney. Recording Time: 36 minutes.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, 4 directors of Sydney based First Draft discuss how the project's reputation for “conquering the new” has developed as its aims have shifted from supporting emerging women artists to encompass all new and emerging practitioners. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk February 2013
Kate Love
31 January 2012. Soho, London. Recording Time: 56 minutes
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, Kate Love, Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, interrogates the idea of the ‘artist as leader’ by considering both the meaning and use of the phrase: “If you are allied to the left you are far more likely to be sceptical of the idea of leadership.” Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk January 2013
Field Theory
1 November 2011, Performance Space, Sydney. Recording Time: 52 minutes.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, 3 members of Melbourne based artists’ collective Field Theory discuss cultural leadership in relation to what they do: “In terms of what being a leader in this field [of live art] means, there is no precedent; we have to forge a path.” Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk January 2013
Cornelia Parker
1 February 2012, Shoreditch, London. Recording Time: 33 minutes.
As part of Joshua Sofaer's Artist as Leader research, sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker discusses how she came to art making and her reluctance to assume the position of leader: "All my work is about undoing positions of power”. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk November 2012
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